Class sizes throughout Oregon are near their lowest point in years, thanks to a potent combination of declining enrollment in public schools and an infusion of federal pandemic recovery funds, new ...

The Portland Association of Teachers has removed class size caps — one of the most expensive, publicly popular and politically contentious elements of their asks — from their most recent bargaining ...

Maria Flores remembers hearing the story about how her daughter wet her pants in kindergarten class. As she recalls it, her “very quiet” daughter raised her hand to use the restroom, but the teacher – ...

Correction: In a previous version of this article class size numbers for the four schools were mixed up. The phrase "common core" was used, however, the term should be just core. Also Kim Neal, ...

Pete Grebner remembers what it was like to juggle a Como High School classroom with too many students, conducting chemistry lessons during which half the room did lab work while the other half read ...

When the Milwaukee School Board approved a class size policy in 1995, it was with the intention to continue lowering class sizes in future years. Thirty years later, the school district is operating ...

The next mediation session is scheduled for Feb. 29. If negotiations reach the point of a strike, it likely wouldn’t happen until early April After 10 months of bargaining and an impasse declaration ...

A recently passed state law to shrink class sizes in New York City could cost at least $1.6 billion each year to employ an additional 17,700 teachers, according to an analysis by the Independent ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to make classes smaller across the largest U.S. school system. Like other parts of his agenda, it’s a costly task. By Troy Closson Chris Phillips’s son was struggling to ...